with a vast army toward Hamadhān, but death overtook him in Shaʿbān of the year 592 AH, when he was already past seventy. His father had been a non-Arab butcher in the Tuesday Market. Khwārazmshāh later exhumed his body, dismembered it, and paraded the pieces on a lance throughout Khurāsān.
170 – Ibn al-Maqrūn, Muḥammad ibn Abī Muḥammad al-Baghdādī
The imam, exemplar, and devotee, the shaykh of the Qurʾān reciters, Abū Shujāʿ Muḥammad ibn Abī Muḥammad ibn Abī al-Maʿālī Ibn al-Maqrūn al-Baghdādī, al-Lawzī, from the Lawziyya quarter (1).
He was born in the teen years after 500 AH (c. 515 AH).
He perfected the modes of Qurʾānic recitation under Abū Muḥammad Sibṭ al-Khayyāṭ and Abū al-Karam al-Shahrazūrī.
He heard the entire work al-Jaʿdiyyāt from Abū al-Ḥasan ibn ʿAbd al-Salām, and al-Zayn Ibn ʿAbd al-Dāʾim read it back to him.
He also received transmission from ʿAlī ibn al-Ṣabbāgh, Abū al-Faṭḥ al-Bayḍāwī, Sibṭ al-Khayyāṭ, Abū al-Faḍl al-Urmuwī, and others.
He related a large body of material, taught the Noble Book for sixty years, and was known for his meticulous scholarship.